John Ashbery



Poem


The sun travels all day,
then falls down.

Let us use your shoes
as they have almost demonstrated.

From its inscrutable lap
a chicken with a wooden leg issues.

All these people are running around.
I wonder what they do in real time.



Planishpere, Ecco, 2009.


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